Re: MAILER and SMTP Overview Question

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From: Alton Brantley
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1992 12:57

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> We use mailer 2.08 and SMTP as our message transfer agents (MTA) here at
> Hershey.  Can someone give me a brief overview of these two user-ids that
> we have on our system?  How do they relate?  Where does incoming mail
> hit first?  Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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You've got two sources - RSCS and the internet. First RSCS

RSCS -> Mailer -> user's reader

For Internet, it's as follows:

3172 device -> TCPIP (virt machine) -> SMTP (v.m.) -> user's reader

For PROFS, it's

RSCS -> PROFS virt. machine

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